MAMMON
HEAD LANDKEEPER
The hits just do not stop! The depiction of Mammon seen here, composed of an artsy cutout collage of a human(?) face, honestly to me looks like the kind of cover art one might find on a dreary finance magazine whose central piece is about an "exciting" new strategy emerging in today's stock market. And, of course, that's exactly the kind of being Mammon is, and that name was absolutely not pulled out of a hat. "Mammon" has had its roots in language as far back as Aramaic and then some, representing wealth and money, and Biblical scholars likened the concept into an actual demon, a personification of greed and avarice that corrupts the hearts of humanity. There are countless depictions in popular culture of a being by the name of Mammon as some kind of wealth-affiliated demon or character, ranging from The Alchemist to Kill Six Billion Demons. Hell, even Mr. Burns lives at the intersection of Croesus and Mammon Streets. This version of Mammon, described as the incarnation of capitalism, represents the "discipline" of seeking increasing levels of profit at the Malthusian cost of everything else, including human suffering.
In fact, Mammon is the most active Archangel in the affairs of New Wirral, albeit through its agents, the Landkeepers. These guys effectively serve as the Team Rocket analogue of the game, lurking around as parasitic real estate dealers, and they're the main target of Eugene's personal sidequest. The way he describes them at first makes them sound like vampires (right down to not inviting them into your house) and he's not exactly keen on dismissing that assumption, but the fact remains that throughout New Wirral, these shells of Mammon are lurking around, trying to install their predatory system wherever they can. You and Eugene track down and break into their offices all over New Wirral until one of them invites you to the Landkeeper HQ, which isn't a train station like every other Archangel lair, but a submerged stone tower of Mammon's own design. Here you actually have the chance to speak with Mammon, who continues to set themselves apart by speaking much more cordially than every other Archangel yet seen, including not talking in all caps. In fact, Mammon claims that its desires and those of humanity, including Eugene, are one and the same. It even likens Eugene's single-minded devotion to his cause of justice as similar to that of his Landkeepers' single-minded devotion to infinite financial growth. Only fitting, after all, since capitalism works best by making you feel like you need it, like it's the natural order of things.
As an opponent (because that speech isn't enough to stop you or Eugene from fighting them), Mammon carries their theme harder than any other foe, with the most unique moves in the game. The only universal attack they have is Copper Chop, which is just part of their toolkit in setting up to bulldoze you through sheer wealth. Market Freeze applies an Ice Coating to you, letting Copper Chop break down your defenses, and Leverage boosts Mammon's offenses at a cost to their defenses. Similarly, Loss Leader is a powerful attack that costs them a bit of health to use, and if things get too dicey for Mammon, they can always self-heal with Too Big To Fail. They're not alone in the fight either, with Margin Call summoning a Jormungold to its side. And finally, there's its Angelic Attack, Market Crash, depicted by what else but a stock market graph arrow plummeting onto you for bighuge damage.
The devs have had an Archangel Mammon of sorts appear in Lenna's Inception too. In that one, the Chairman operates a bank that provides such profitable business that they are able to deprive the ruling kingdom of its guards and treasury in one fell swoop, and wields such weapons as Bull Market (firing a stampede of golden bulls at their foe) and Consolidation (the usual Ganondorf tennis match but consisting of a giant wad of coins that break off and can be collected after each hit). Those might not be the actual names of those attacks but I'm gonna call them that because it fits, y'know? The point is, there is so much cool stuff here that adds up to one of the best love-to-hate Archangels in the game.